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sags intended for religious purposes, In the youth of Ger many. The chair was taken hs , t. Clark, Esq., tht President of the Society. Mr. J. Blyth then rell h paper on the ; uutieq, difficulties, and responsibilitiot tot the .arehitec tural profession. The Learned Lectnret chid ricit ehicidalre ::itt:y novel views on the subject, nor did he 'gift any 'satis factory explanations as to the causes whleh have impeded the advance of architecture in this 'country, while the other branches of the fine arts have made such rapid progress Within the last few years. He dwelt on the difficulties an architect had to contend with, in providing for the accom modation of persons having a variety of wants in the build ings of thi s country, and complained that great injustice wag often done, on this account, to professionel men. It appears, however, to us, that architecture has not later; made th e same advance in this as in ' other countr::,,, in consequence of a strict adherence to a style of building not adapted to our climate. Every change Ia objected as a departure from strict and established rule, ; and it is for gotten that the 'Facile of our most celebrated architects, Jones and Wren, rests on their hr . .ving deviated from the beaten track of their predecessors—giving a full scope to l their inventi' genius. At the conclusion of the lecture the Chairrrran announced that a number of presents had been man e to the Society since the last meeting, and amongst others some designs of the Houses of Parliament in the years 1737 and 1799, from Sir J. Soane, also three engravings of Peterbor oug h Cathedral, b y G. M oore, Esq. and . the pla n , sec ti on , and elevation o f W ater l oo B r i dge, by H. W. Hasley, Esq. Last week the officers t:if the parish of St. Andrew aie-Great gave away the annual bequest made by the be nevolent widow of the celebrated Captain Cook, enabling them to give five g•aineas a piece to five deserving women who had never received parochial relief.. One of can didates called the next morning on Dr. Thackery, and, Placing two sovereigns in his hand, remarked, " I never cost the parish a farthing in my life, and when I am dead that will five me Christian burial."—Cambridg e Chronicle. C AYIBRIDGE, JAN. 12.—A public dinner will be live on the 22d inst., i n commemorat i on of the glo s result of the Corporation Elections, at which the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be present. Singland House, near this city, an ancient edifice, Was discovered in a blaze last night by Sergeant Barton and a party of the police, who hastened to the premises, and, by pulling down the first stairs and staircase, where th e fire was raging, eventually savf,:d the whole house from destruction, the flames having 'oeen thus diverted from the upper part of the concern., and with some difficulty extin guished. There is littlr, doubt but this is the act of in cendiaries, as the Csit7 Sheriff lately dispossed under habere several tenants or, the lands of Singland, and the house was untenanted ,—Limerick Chronicle. On Thep : day last, between nine and ten o'clock at night, the inmates and family of Eddisbury Lodge, the re sidence of C. W. Phillips, Esq., deputy surveyor of Dela mere 'forest were much alarmed by the following diabolical ocwarrence. The children had just retired from the nur s artry to their beds, when the report of a gun was heard, - the shots from which shattered all the glasS, and entered the room. In the course of half an hour another gun, loaded with shot, was fired through the window of an ad joining apartment, in which a light had been placed, and t he glass fractured : but no one was injured in either in 'Bta.nce. It then seems that the villPms who committed t this most wicked outrage proceeded on to a lodge in the he occup i e d b y one o f Mr. Phillips's woodmen, t he window of which was fired. through and the glass de ts,treyed, but fortunat e ly no one, was injured by the shots, as de the in mates were in bed.—C9, tester Courant. GRAND FANCY 8., From the high and ,LL AT THE COLOS SEUM .— W ich thi s f ete i s patronage, as well as zeal with anticipat e th at, iv v aing got up, there i s ever y reason t o prove one o f tly" • b point of ele gance an d en j oyment , i t w ill occurred in .e most successful that has for some years ' at this, f or #. - le metropolis. It is impossible not to rejoice .he sake o f th a t exce ll ent inst i tut i on t h e Royal s Pens''.ry for Di seases of the Ear, in aid of the funds of which : Lt has been projected and carried into effect. It ap -12,11',., that ne ar l y 1 0,000 poor patients have bad relief in lova establishment, and that fact alone should be sufficient to stimulate on this occasion both grave and gay, who can feel any sympathy with suffering humanity. ROYAL NAVAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY.—YCS terday a quarterly meeting of the members of this charity Was held at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's ", street. Th e S oc i e t y was i nst i tuted in 1791, to relieve 'in digent orphans of Naval Officers, and Naval Officers re duced by misfortune to indigence. At twelve o'clock Cap taira Sibley, R.N., took the Chair. The meeting was oc cupied for several hours investigating into the merits of the applications of seventy-nine claimants, the details of which were devoid of general intetest. The majority of the peti tions were allowed, and the sum of 4911. was unanimously voted for the current srApenditure of - the quarter. The meeting then adjournea. Yeste.rday aftern ooh, between four and five o'clock, the carriage cery-lane en d , in of Si , : Se3mour Blanc, on passing near Chan 'fleet -street, was, by the folly of the coach rnan, enaea.vouring to pass between two waggons, so complet y l ele,cked by the p o l e b e i ng d r i ven through the wheel of 0. 0 coal waggon, that, to extricate the carriage horse fror.n his perilous situation, it was requisite to saw ' the poly; in two. Neither Sir Seymour nor Lady Blane met. _ li tth any injury. Th ose who saw the origin of the accv"Aent, attributed it to the rash conduct and inexperience of the coachman, there being no possibility or room for the 'carriage to pass safely, as the coal and potato waggons were both heavily laden. ATROCIOUS ATTACK ON THE HON. C. LIND aA.Y.--On Wednesday last, between twelve and one o'clock, as the Hon. Colin Lindsay, youngest son of the Earl of 113alcarras, was riding on his way from Wigan to Haigh Mall, the family residence, a villain on horseback passed tim, and shortly after turned back and rode up to him, cut the reins of his horse, and set it off at full gallop. He alie n made forWigan. The horse on which the Hon. Mr. dsay was r iding, proce eded at a fearful rapidity, about a mile on the road, whea. h e was stopped at the toll-bar, the rider having, fortunately, escaped unhurt. A reward is whoered for the a pprehension of the cowardly and base wretch worththus atta ckekwithout provocation, an amiable and ~Y Young discovered., gentleman, and we trust ere l ong h e w ill b e Bolton Chronicle of Saturday. inter NE XT ELE CTION.— A can did ate on t h e R e f orm est, Worthy to be the colleague of our honest and up right merriber, Mr. Ewart, ought instantly to be fixed upon, and his name announced to the public. It is a certainty f that that, proper management, Lord Sandon must be de _eate,:t at the next election. The corrupt influence which fop-,ed him upon us, is brokeU up and scattered to the • w ,lnds• The Corporation interest was of old exerted in his e half—now it will be turned against him. All local power is now in the hands 'of better and wiser men than those who Ll att.an ised his L or d s hi p. If the Reformers only exert eir of Li his days are num b ere d as t h e representat i ve verpoolenergies, . The same remar k s w ill app l y equa ll y we ll to the case of the county. The result of the registration has deeded that one Reformer, if not two, shall sit for this di visuM in the next Parliament.--Liv&rpool Chronicle. Th e A ugsburg Gazette gives the following extracts from the new Almanack Russe for 1836 :—" The Council of the Empire is the highest power in the country ; it is presided over by Councillor Novvossilzow. The following Ministers compose the Russian Cabinet :—Prince Woi • . iconski, Intendant of the Imperial Househtfid ; Prince A. Lieven, Director -General of the Ports ; Count Nesselrode, Minister for Foreign Affairs ; Count Toll, Director of 'Works, Bridges, and Highways ; Count Tschernischew, Mi nister of War ; Count Canerin, Minister of Finance : i Ad miral Moll er , Mi n i s t er o f Marine ; , Councillor . Uwarow pr esident o f th e A ca d emy of Sciences), Minister of Public instruction ; Blud ow , S ecre t ary o f S ta t e f or the Depart- The nt of the I nter i or ; Daselikow, Secretary of State for the Departm en t o f J ust i ce ; and Khitrowo, Comptroller o t s the Empire." 3q, 111-1 E CITY OF LONDON MUNICIPAL REFORM — 1 14 '.. - -The information that the City of London Munici liat Reform report will be speedily produced has excited a y vc strong interest in the City of London ; and it is ex pected th at meetings will immediatoly take place, not only the Courts o f Ald ermen an d C ommon C ounc il , b ut i n all the wards, on ih e su bj ect. Th ere ex i sts great o bj ect i on to the Municipsl Bills already passed by the citizens o London as the model of a measure for London. CHURCH -RATE, ST. GEORGE'S SOUTHWARK.— Second Day's Poll. —The poll was continued with great rn a:!leima.tion thr oug h out the day, the numbers polled during f our dc,3, b eing", against the rate 148, for the rate 83. At clock, when the close d for the day, the gross numbe r were po ll Againa the rate .................. For th e rate • 355 ' ro `)5l Much angry discussion followed the declaration of the poll. It will Close at four o ' clock this afternoon. THE DIIS.CIONsoLAE WIDOW. This beautiful engraving, w be feuna in " The Book of Gems," is from an original ; P a 'n ting by Hancock. The object of the Editor in this superb worl d has been to collect and ar a popular and attract' range in attrac t ive form the most perfect specimens of the Poets, illustrßritain.ated by the pencils of the Artists of Great . acquitted himself of this his fello ent task in the happ i est and most efficient manner ; his book is an honour to the genius o f an advwaTuntrY men. During the past week, of e c e o 7f 15 per cent., steathed in this has been made on the sel ling p.artially neighbourhood. We price unclrstand that tl~is is rs, and o. work during the i' Uurinc, attri butable to the general di ffi culty of finding collie y to the general - suspension coils on the bank Christ mas festivities. The stock o f coa s are and ly low.—WhitAaveiz Heral d . have been extreme IRELA.XI): Anti-tithe Wteetings have been held in various parts of COiktY. SEDUCTION.—In the Sheriff's Court, Wexford, on Friday last, a respectable farmer named Mathew Hickey was Et u ar. ded one hundred pounds damages 0003) . 1 .": a young man named James Connet) ti the seduction of his daughter. Lormr.trrY.—There has lately died at Drnm„ii n e , Donoughmore, Ireland ) in hi s 114th :,,ea% ha*renqs Crenny. He lived 70 years ill l'ne tein4ce of Mr. Innes's family— , havin.g seen tile:, iotrtth heir of the Glen es t a t e , now 11 inc": Ans old. He was a trustworthy, honest Mail ae.tended divine service every Sunday, and at the age of 114 walked to chapel with great firmness. He retained his recollection to the last. A huntsman to one of the packs of hounds in the neigh bourhood of Cork, having committed matrimony in another than his own parish, so deeply offended his Pastor by this trespass, that he was ordered to be " married over again" in his own parish, or to give up his vocation as a hunts man. The unfortunate trans g ressor against sacerdotal authority, bad not mone y enough pay üble toll for per mission to travel the high way of, matrimony—and be ing refractory through dire necessity, he has lost his place—another huntsman being appointed to succeed him. —Cork Herald. Skibbereen was the scene of disgraceful riot and confu sion on St. Stephen's day ; one man (Michael Collins) has been killed and several persons wounded. TIPPERARY MEETING.—On last Thursday, pursuant to requisition, a meeting of magistrates assembled a t th e Court-house of Cashel, t o take into consideration the state of crime in several of our Baronies, and to devise the best means for its suppression. Lord Donoughmore was in the chair. The following resolutions were unanimously a d o pt e d : — " That application be made to Government for one hundred additional policeman, to be allocated in the several dis turbed baronies, as Major Miller and the other Police Magistrates should think advisable. That application be made to Government that the Act (known as Sir Henry Pamirs) for the better preservation of the peace, and the more speedy punishment of offences, be put in force in those baronies which are particularly considered to be unquiet." Ma. O'CONNELL has deferred dining with the citizens of Cork, as intimated in his former communication, until his return from the ensuing Session of Parliament.—Lublin Post. TITHES—Loss OF LIFE.—The lives of two human beings, and the properties and liberty of two others have been sacri ficed in one day to support the dignity of a Christian esta blishment.--Dublin Freeman's Journal. The Winter Tithe Campaign has commenced "by the murder of one man and the death of another." The Rev. Rector has, we think, a composition of eleven hundred pounds a-year. Mr. James Cummins, an unquestionable authority on such a subject, described the Rev. Gentle man as a young man of fashion, who spent his time at places of gay resort in England and on the Continent. A vast majority of the Clergy of this county were happy to receive their tithe for 1831, and 1832, and 1833 from the Government out of the million fund, at a deduction of 121 per cent. The Rev. Mr. Beresford preferred distraining and suing his psrishioners, allowing to his proctor, the cele brated Mr. Philip Cross, twenty-five per cent. We have heard, and we certainly believe truly, that in addition to the 1,1001. composition, the gentleman put his parishioners in one year to six hundred pounds law costs. A mode of proceeding hitherto unheard of in this country was resorted. to ; Mr. Cross traversed the parish, with armed men, fol lowed by a but-load of handcuffs, wherewith to manacle the peasantry. For the last-five years, there has been in this unfortunate parish an incessant round of distraints—law and equity processes. We recollect seeing in the public papers, a short time since, the farm of one of the parishioners ad vertised to be sold under execution, at the suit of the Rev. Gentleman. The peasantry of that part of the country are in a stpte of complete despair and exasperation ; and we are only surprised that the dreadful persecution to which they have been subjected, has been so long and so patiently borne. The depressed prices of the present season, and their total inability to meet the Rev. Gentlerrian's demands and the costs of proceedings in a Court of Equity—the most expensive which could be resorted to—appear to have at length exhausted their patience, and their capability of enduring further suffering. We are not disposed to impute a sanguinary disposition to Mr. Beresford ; but, considering the course he pursued with respect to the inhabitants of his parish, in exacting from them three years' composition which he might have had elsewhere, and in subjecting their' for five years to an incessant harrassing of distraints and law proceedings, how could he expect any other result from sending among them, in this peculiarly depressed season, armed men, employed in the obnoxious service of bringing them into a Court of Equity, and subjecting them anew to enormous costs, than that the shedding of human blood, and the loss of human life, would be the consequence ? Is there to be no end of these sacrifices ? Is this dread ful state of things never to terminate? Is the hereditary branch of the Legislature, careless of the misery of the rural population, and indifferent to their relief, still obsti nately to oppose itself to every measure which can be de vised, or may be sent up to them, to restore tranquillity and peace to a distracted country ? A great statesman professed his inability to draw a bill of indictment against a whole people. The clergy of the Established Church are solving a similar difficulty, by show ing the feasibility of going to law with the entire popula tion. We hear of nothing from every district of this great country but law processes in progress against the commu nity of every class, grade, and description--occupying tenants, middlemen, landlords, owners of the fee—all in volved in the common calamity. Landlords in numerous instances, within our knowledge, are either threatened with proceedings, or are being actually sued for hundreds of pounds, arrears due by their tenants, to which, under the operation of Stanley's Act, they are now considered legally liable. There is no prospect for the agricultural commu nity, but that of general confusion, destruction, and ruin, unless there be an immediate legislative interposition for their relief. —Cork Reporter. TITHES AGAIN ! ! !—Mr. Daniel Geran, of Rushmount, near Kilworth, was arrested, on his way home from the Chapel, on Twelfth Day, under an execution for tithe. He remained two or three days in the tithe Proctor's house, and in the Bridewell at Kilworth, from whence he was re moved last evening to the Bridewell at Fermoy. This old gentleman, now upwards of seventy years of age, is, we un derstand, on hia way from Fermoy this day to the County Gaol, under escort of Major Galwey, of the Police, and the whole of the garrison of Fermoy ! ! This extraordinary pro cession is expected to arrive in this city about four o'clock. At two o'clock Mr. Geran, in a chaise, surrounded by a troop of Dragoons, has passed our office on his way to the County Gaol. The escort was much more numerous until it arrived at Batrick's Bridge, when a large part of the troops was witharawn. The sensation created by this dis play is very great—particularly as the events of yesterday, of which the Rev. Mr. Beresford is yet the only historian, hail previously made an impression, which we need not de scribe, on the public mind.—The remembrance of the Rathcormac slaughter, it seems, will never be suffered to be effaced.—Cork Reporter of Saturday. IMPRISONMENT.—The seizure and sale of the farmer's stock is not sufficient to satisfy the successors of the Apostles ! We have now to announce the imprisonment of Mr. O'Flaherty, of Donornan, at the suit of the Rev. Mr. Croker, of Croom. Mr. O'Flalierty's stock, consist ing of sheep and cows, were lately seized by the Rev. Plain tiff, and sold for a few shillings in our public streets. The stock was, in point of value, quadruple the sum claimed ; but a loss so serious as this, and that at the shrine of an Establishment with which the loser had no religious con nection, did not appease the meek, charitable, and consis tent spirit of this Christian minister. He has had Mr. O'Flaherty committed to the city gaol, where he now lies immured, and where, we are sure, the sympathies of his countrymen will reach him. He presents the affecting, though glorious spectacle, of a man suffering with courage for a great principle.—Limerick Paper. The public dinner to Mr. O'Connell in Dublin is fixed for Monday, the 25th instant. Messieurs the Commissioners of the Dublin Election have retired into private life. ELEGANT EXTRACT.—The following specimen of Tory slang adorns the.columns of the Dublin Evening Mail : " The dinner to Mr. O'Connell at Cork is no go. The Queen's County blow out, too, turns out to be a failure. The people have given him their alms already. They won't pay now for seeing the "hanimar at his food. LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY. A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the inha bitants of_Croydon and its vicinity was held yesterday, at the Town Hall, Croydon, to take into consideration the propriety of supporting the line of railway to Brighton pro jected by Mr. Gibbs. Capt. ALSAGER, M. P., took the Chair. Mr. DRUMMOND read the report of a meeting held at Croydon, on the 24th of September last, from which it appeared that five different routes or lines were proposed to effect a railway communication between London and Brighton. Three of these lines passed through Croydon, and two of them by way of Dorking, leaving Croydon out of the route, thus showing the majority of opinions on the part of the engineers engaged upon the subject to be in favour of a line passing through the town. The Com mittee considered that the advantage s derived by the neigh bourhood of Croydon from its present position, in the direct route from London to Brighton, would be materially lessened if the projected railways which were to avoid that place were carried into effect, and that the injury thus effected would not be counterbalanced by any benefit to the public from a preference of those lines, and they recommended, therefore, an active opposition to them. It appeared to the Corn mittee that of the lines passing through Croydon that titE S UN, LONijoN 5 WEiiN.ggOAVI JAN tTARYAR7IB36. whiCh adiipi•e:d ifit6ded. gf irtiliV4 freina I,ondori to Croydon, for which an Act had been already Cibidffied, and inchlded in its route Croydon, Reigate, Horsham, and s Shoreham ) was well calculated to ctiftust; L. 11.? advantage dr Cheap and rapid communication, as extensively and beneficially as the limit of the undertaking admitted, to promote the welfare of that neighbourhood in particular, io effect those objects with the least sacrifice of pri vate property: A great titittito of plans were also handed about the Hall, in order that each person might have a full oppor tmay Judging of the proposed line. r. il Ai t k A otmetvo4 that thereiweresd t th o re k e ti Liffe f r r e o n m i routes described on the plan. it-4, Fished Mr. Gibb s w hi c h li ne i t was his intention to 2. l `e ? Mr. GIBBS said that all the lines emanated from Giro}'-' don. His object was to obtain a line that would be at. tended with the least injury to the landed proprietors, and that would be likely to meet with the least opposition in Parliament. The line that it was his intention to adopt was that one which passed through Merstham, and it would avoid interfering with ornamental land. The route of the line would be from the Croydon Canal in the line of a small branch of the old tram road by the church, on to Beggar's-bush. It would then pass up Smithambottom, crossing the turnpike-road to Brighton at the Red Lion Inn, about two miles beyond which place commenced the tunnel through the Merstham range of hills. He found that this line would be the least objectionable to the landed proprietors: He had waited on the whole of them, and be found only eight dissentients, all the others having given their consent to the undertaking.—(Hear, hear.) He would not have occasion to cut through ornamental pro perty, but principally through chalk, and other less valuable land. Lord Monson and Sir William Jolliffe had given their consent to the course that the railway was proposed to take. In fact, it might be safely stated that no linecould be found causing so little injury to landed proprietors as the proposed one through Croydon and Merstham. The rail way would open a large field of communication from Kent into Surrey, and, therefore, Croydon would become an open ing for a very large district. He would pledge himself that the line presented to Parliament would be the line from Croydon to Merstham. If, however, they should be unsuc cessful in obtaining the sanction of Pirliament to that line, and another line should be adopted, the Company intended to make a branch from Croydon to Lcatherhead, in order that the inhabitants of the former town should not sustain a disappointment.—(Cheers.) Mr. HARMAN inquired if it was the intention of the Com pany to make the railway from London to Croydon, and for which they had obtained a Bill some' time since ? Mr. Gass said that the only difficulty the Company had to complete that railway arose from their inability to arrange with the Canal Company, and which Company were the proprietors of the land from one end of the line to the other. The Railway Company wished to have adjusted the matter amicably, but the Canal, being a valuable pro perty, required a great many surveys and negotiations. Mr. BURCHELL, the solicitor to the Company, said there was a clause in the Act of Parliament, which prevented the Company commencing the railway to Croydon till they had settled with the Canal Company. He did not con sider a settlement would be made until the case had been before a Jury. Mr. JOHN DRUMMOND addressed the meeting at very considerable length in favour of the railway, and described the great advantages that railways must be to every branch of the community. He concluded by proposing the first resolution, for which see advertisement. The resolution having been seconded, Mr. WARRINGTON; who had spoken at a former part of the meeting against the railway, again addressed the com pany, and contended that railways answered no good pur pose. They could merely convey passengers and light goods, but heavy goods they could not convey above the lines. After some discussion between Mr. Warrington, Mr. Harman, Mr. Drummond, and other gentlemen, Mr. GJBBS stated, in answer to a question, that if Par liament did not grant a Bill for the Merstham line, he (Mr. Gibbs) had the power to take any other line for which he had given notice. A GENTLEMAN, who said he represented another Com pany that proposed carrying a railway to Brighton, said it was the intention of that Company to carry the railway to Brighton from the termination of the Croydon railway ; but the difficulty was how they could do so if that railway was not commenced. Mr: BURCHELL, as solicitor for the London and Croydon Railway, said he was happy to hear the statement made by the last speaker, because it convinced him that the London and Croydon Railway would not only have the Brighton traffic, but the trade between Dover and that part of the country.—(Hear, hear.) The meeting might rely that the London and Croydon Railway would be carried into effect, and therefore the difficulty which the last speaker enter tained would be got over. The Company were possessed of a very large capital, and were resolved to carry their plan into operation. The Company proposed making branches to the East and West end of London, and Which would furnish a greater accommodation to the public than any of the other railways which had been projected._ A GENTLEMAN asked if manure would be allowed to be brought down the railway ? Mr. BURCUELL answered in the affirmative. The GENTLEMAN inquired if there would be any altera tion in the charge for tonnage ? Mr. BURCHELL said the tonnage world be much lower. Air. GIBBS observed that the schedule of dues wouldbe regulated by Parliament, and they always considered the interest of the agriculturist. Chalk, manure, or other things used in agriculture, would not be charged more than a penny or three half-pence per mile. A clause was also always inserted in. Railway Bills, that there should be " turn-outs"--railways turning out of the main line for the convenience of the farmer to have a carriage turned on his land. The resolution was then carried. Mr. RUSSELL alluded to the late meeting at Dorking, and said that a great many of those persons who attended that meeting had since altered their opinions, and were in favour of the line intended to pass through Croydon. Mr. BLAKE said that a different body of men constituted the second meeting that was held, and were totally opposed to the first. Mr. DRUMMOND then proposed the next resolution, which was supported by several gentlemen, and carried amid loud cheers. The remaining resolution was next carried, and thanks having been voted to the Chnirman, the meeting separated. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. The ordinary meeting of this Society was held yesterday evening, at its rooms in Regent-street, Sir John Barrow, President, in the Chair. A considerable audience was pre sent, on account of its being previously known that the Royal premium would be presented to Captain Back, for his discoveries in his recent expedition ; and amongst the company were Sir John Franklin, Dr. Richardson, Colonel Galindo, Dr. Hancock, and other distinguished travellers. Captain MACONOCHIE announced that a communication had been received from Mr. Schornburck, now engaged in an expedition in the interior of Guiana, which would be read at an ensuing meeting. He also read an interesting paper from Lieut. Burnes, on the maritime communications of India, by the natives of Cutch, elucidatory as well of the antiquity of the country, as of its present condition. Sir JOHN BARROW stated that it was with peculiar plea sure he had to communicate to Captain Back the decision of the Council, which had awarded to him the Royal pre mium for the present season, for the advancement of Geogra phical discovery. In doing so, he could not but express his own satisfaction at his enterprising conduct, as on occount of his being previously associated in the expedition of Sir John Franklin, he was fully aware of the difficulties, privations, and sufferings, which he would have to encounter. In offer ing his services on the last occasion, he was convinced that it was not for the sake of attaining popularity, but that it was dictated by pure humanity, for the sake of his fellow countrymen. In his late expedition, Captain Back had pro bably traversed ground which had never before been trod on foot by civilized man, as his excursion extended to very considerable distances beyond any of the stations occupied by the Hudson's Bay Company. He had, in a paper which had lately been read, detailed his simple and affecting, narrative, but in it he had determined, with greater precision than before, several interesting and important points in the position of the Slave Lake, the course of a large and im portant river which he had traced to the sea, and a point forming a chain which maintained a connection with what had been discovered five or six times before by Hearne and others. In his own opinion the recen t o b serva ti o ns of Captain Back had determined that there was a communica tion between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and verified the conclusions which had been made by Captain Cook, and several other illustrious modern navigators. It might be conceived that this communication would he found between the point of Cape Turnagain and the Hecla and Fury Straits. He would further state, as a most extraordinary case, confirmatory of the same, that in formation had been received this day, that the whole of the six ships which had been enclosed in the ice in the Northern Seas had become liberated, and that one of them had drifted a distance of upwards of six hundred miles, plainly denoting the existence of a current. If such had been accomplished by a merchant vessel, he did not fear for the security of a British man-of-war. He con cluded with reading the resolutions-of the Council, award ing the annual premium to Captain Back, for his disco veries from the great Slave Lake to the borders of the Arctic Sea, including the course of * a largo river hitherto unknown, and presented the same amidst the most en thusiastic applause of the meeting. Captain iiAcx, in rcply, expressed his acknowledgmepcs which it would give him to be engaged in any ' for the honour which had been conferred upon him, and the his conviction in the existence of a would be d i 7tern and Western Coasts of Arne . 4hv future English m a il irjh t ti t s s i atilfd r eil e:i d d t d it which l v ie ec h n op tu e e d A ;v; passa , g v e h ma, , e ermw, . navigatorS. Sir JoRN FRANKLIN and Dr. RICHARDS, on being called upon, expressed their opinions in support of those of Captain Back and Sir John Barrow. The Learned Pre sident, in conclusion, stated his wishes that the project for any future expedition might emanate from the Society, and expressed his cordial desires to be the medium of any such communication to the Government. AMERICAN PAPERS. From a second edifl * t tl a LiOtrpool Albion of Monday.) paw_ Virginitlll, Cripidin thittis, which sailed The 24th ult., lid§ jtist atri!Ped, She it : id the poi : _in !.6 days. The liapeirs from made NtheewlaYaodrkin 12 received by this conveyance add little to tuo amuntS Pte viously received of the dreadful fire which destroyed the business part of New York. Confidence, which the calamity had at first shaken, was gradually returning. Congress had taken the subject into consideration, and a Bill for the re lief of the sufferers by this dreadful conflagration had been introduced into the House of Representatives. There was, in fact, not any doubt that the losses of the merchants, &c., would be relieved, in whole or in part, out of the National Treasury, and that the eply . evil resulting from the calamity Would be the temporary interruption of business. We make the following extracts from the papers received by the Virginian. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. RELIEF OF THE SUFFERERS BY THE FIRE IN NEW YORK. Mr. Cambreleng rose, he said, to throw himself on the indulgence of the house, for the purpose of asking what he was sure would be granted—the unanimous consent of the house to report a Bill from the Committee of Ways and Means for the relief of the sufferers by the late fire in the city of New York. Mr. Jarvis moved a suspension of the rule, so as to per mit any of the committee to make reports, and it was agreed to. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, then presented the following report and bill : " The Secretary of the Treasury having transmitted to the Committee of Ways and Means a letter from the col lector of the port of New York, giving an account of the late disastrous conflagration at that place, and representing the entire suspension of .credit, and prostration of trade, the committee .respectfully submit the following report : " Deeply sympathizing with the immediate and severe sufferers by a great national calamity, the Committee of Ways and Means lost no time in, considering the commu nication of the Secretary of the Treasury. The disaster is of an unparallelled character, and its consequences must be felt by every interest and every quarter of the Union. An exercise of, all the constitutional power of the Federal Government is in this instance demanded, not only by the highest considerations of national policy and justice, but prompt measures are essentially necessary to the collection of the revenue in every part of the Union, to the public interest in every branch of the national expenditure, and to arrest, or at least to diminish, the calamitous effects of the late conflagration on all interests and in every section of the country. " In considering what measures were best calculated to moderate the shock upon the trade, revenue, and industry of the country, three propositions were suggested—namely, the extension of the credit on bonds die from those who have suffered by the late fire, three, four, and five years — placing the vast surplus revenues of the country where they may be more actively employed in our cities, in extending relief to the embarrassed and impoverished debtors of Go vernment, and remitting the duty on all merchandise de . - stroyed in original packages. The Committee submitted a Bill embracing the two first propositions. The first provi sion is in accordance with the practice of Government heretofore ; the second, while it will most extensively relieve the immediate wants of trade, and in reviving the energies of the commercial capital of the Union, cannot diminish in any manner the security of Government, or embarrass the operations of the Treasury. The question of remitting duties on property destroyed was also considered by the Committee, but appearing to require previous examination and more deliberation, and not wishing to delay the pro posed measures of relief, it was not finally acted on." The Bill for the Relief of the Sufferers by Fire in the City of New York was then read : "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress as sembled, that the Collector of the` port of New York be, and he is hereby authorised, as he may deem best calculated to secure the interest of the United States, to cause to be extended (with the assent of the sureties thereon) the time of payment of all bonds heretofore given for duties as aforesaid, to periods not exceeding an average of three, four, and five years, or to allow the bonds to be cancelled upon giving to the said Collector new bonds, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the said Collector, for the sum of the former bonds, respectively payable, in average periods of three, four, and five years, from and after the day of payment specified in the bonds to be taken up or cancelled as aforesaid. And the said Collec tor is hereby' authorised and directed to give up or can cel all. such bonds upon the receipt of others described in this Act ; which last-mentioned bonds shall be proceeded with in all respects like other bonds which are taken by Collectors for duties due to th 4 United States ; provided, however, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend to bonds which had fallen due before the 17th day of the present month. " Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to such Banks as he may select, any surplus moneys of the Government, or any part thereof, which may not be required for the public service, and to permit the same to remain in such Banks for 12 months from the passage of this Act." After the reading of the Bill, Mr. Cambreleng said, there was another subject before the Committee which was not de finitely acted upon, viz., the remission of duties on goods de troyed, which required more examination and deliberation. The subject was brought before the Committee by the letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letters from the collector of the port of New York. He would not detain the House by any remarks on the subject now, and merely remarking that it was with infinite regret for the cause of it that he found himself called upon, as the first act in his new situation, to bring in a Bill of this de scription, he would ask the indulgence of the House to take up the subject to-morrow. The Bill was read twice and committedto the Committee of the whole on the state of the Union. • Mr. M'Kean hoped, he said, that the Bill would be acted on speedily, and the Committee would soon report on the proposition to remit the duties. Mr. Cambreleng stated, as the Bill was in the Committee on the whole on the state of the Union, it could be taken up at any time after the papers were printed. ORIGIN OF THE FIRE. A private meeting was held yesterday, and continued to day, in presence of Justice Lownds and Colonel Murray, for the purpose of investigating the origin of the late devas tating fire in our city. A number of the merchants whose stores were in the vicinity of the commencement of the conflagration were examined, together with the clerks and others in their employ, and two or three watchmen who were in the neighbourhood at the time. The depositions of these persons amounted to nothing further, than that the fire commenced in the upper part of the store of Comstock and Andrews, though, perhaps, not in the part occupied by them. It was averred by one or two of the clerks employed in the neighbouring stores, that the flames were seen jawing from the second and fifth stories at the same time, while others asserted that they came first from the fourth story ; and one of the watch men stated, that he saw the fire at first coming from • a small space in the roof. A clerk of Edward Kellogg, 139, Pearl -street, deposed that he heard a report like a cannon, and directly afterwards a cry of " Fire F' He ran out of Mr. Kellogg's store, where he was busy at the time, and saw the flames bursting from the upper windows of Com stock and Andrews's store. He immediately ran back and secured his own books and papers ; and by the time he had accomplished this the whole building where the fire had commenced, was in flames. Mr. Badcock, who occupied the upper part of the building in which Messrs. Comstock and Andrews's store is situated, left the premises about dark, and stated that the flue leading from below was very hot, and that he spoke to his clerk, who accompanied him, of the circum stance. The clerk, however, said that this was commonly the case ; but that the heat on that occasion might be greater than usual, owing to 'the extreme coldness of the day, and the large fire consequently required in the grate. A mass. of other testimony was adduced, which tended to show that this disastrous event was no doubt owing to accident, from which the most careful cannot at any time consider themselves exempt. ( From the Daily Advertiser of Dec. 2 4 .) The ruins of the fire present a scene as busy a nd ani mated, though of a somewhat different character, as the streets themselves did before the catastrophe took place. Crowds of visitors, consisting, in many instances, of the sufferers themselves, with their wives and families, con , stantly passing back and forth ; multitudes of mechanics and labourers, using their best endeavours to restore order and regularity where now exists the wildest confusion ; and numbers of miserable half-clad wretches of both sexes, dig ging among the yet heated bricks and rubbish, frequently at the imminent danger of their lives, and often fighting, and contending eagerly for what cannot possibly be of ony uke, afford to the spectator who may be transiently passing a spectacle highly curious and instructive. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. The House resumed the consideration of the petition from sundry inhabitants of the town of Wrentham, in Mas sachusetts, praying the abolition of slavery and the slave 4- he cliAnct of Columbia, trade 'rhe motion to r 7ject the' petition still pending, Mr. Owens, after some re'!_tivitks" with a view to reconcile the conflicting opinions of the Aferdiiag on the subject of the disposition of this and similar petition§, moved to lay the petition and all motions respecting it on the table, stat ing, that if it prevailed, he should offer the following resolu tions : Resolved, That in the opinion of this House, the ques tion of the abolition of slavery in the district of Columbia ought not to be entertained by Congress. " And be it further resolved, That in case any peti tions praying the abolition of slavery in the district of Columbia, be - hereafter presented, it is the deliberate opinion of this House that the same ought to be laid on the table without ;Tading:" Af f , O wens express.l the hope that the resolutions would be accepted by the gentleman f:orn South Carolina, in lieu of his motion to reject the petition. Mr. Hammond was eery sorry, he said, tha..4.' he could not accept the proposition, and he hoped the gen:lie:Pan from Georgia would withdraw his motion. Some observations were made by Mr. Mercer, of Vir ginia, upon the point of order, as to the effect of a vote to lay upon the table a motion for reconsideration ; and The Speaker having stated his present views of that point of order, and indicated a disposition hereafter more maturely to consider it, Mr. WISE proposed to amend the first resolution by ad , ding, " Because Congress has no power to legislate on it under the Constitution of the United States ;" and to amend the second by striking out all after the word " Re solved," and inserting, " That this House will not receive any future memorials on that subject," adding that, with these modifications, he would vote for the resolutions. Mr. OWENS declined the acceptance of the amendments as modifleations of his resolutions. The question being taken on the motion to lay the peti tion, and all the motions relating to it on the table, it was decided as follows :—Yeas, 140—Nays, 76. So the peti tion and all the motions depending thereon were ordered to lie upon the table. Mr. OWENS moved that the rule of the House be sus pended, in order to allow him to offer the resolutions he had already indicated to the House ; on which he asked for the yeas and nays ; and they were ordered. The question being taken, it was decided in the negative, as follows :—Yeas, 100—Nays, 115. So the House re fused to suspend the rule. Two-thirds of the members present would have been necessary to carry that question. TEXAS.—The Mexican Government of San Patnco has been obliged to surrender to a small party of Texians, which took the place after a severe action, in which the Mexicans suffered considerable loss. But the most inte resting and cheering intelligence from Texas is the com plete organization of the Provisional Government ! The delegates to the general consultation assembled at San Filipe on the 3d of November, and proceeded to adopt on the Bth the Bill of Rights, and also a plan of Government. In conformity with this plan, a Governor, Lieutenant-Go vernor, and a General Council were elected from among the members of the consultation. The followinc , persons were named and compose now the Government, de facto, of Texas :—For Governor, Henry Smith ; for Lieutenant:- Governor, J. W. Robinson. [Here follows a list of the General Council, which con tains some Spanish, but a majority of Anglo-American names.) SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 23.-200 shares United States Bank, 1 1.2 i. FRENCH PAPERS. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, JAN. 11. At half-past one o'clock M. Durz , .. the President, took the Chair. Count JAUBERT, one of tho Secretaries, read the proces-verbal of the preceding meeting, but, owing to the small number of deputies in attendance (aotwith standing the interesting matter to be discussed), the Sit ting was of necessity suspended for half an hour. Messrs. Guizott, Persil, and Humann were at their post at an early hour. The House having resumed, the discussion of the project of address in answer to the Speech from the Throne being the order of the day, M. Chapuis Mont laville, the first Member inscribed as desiring to spea k against it, was called to the tribune. M. MONTLAVILLE said that it was not his intention to to analise " the speech of Warsaw," nor comment on every one of the sentences by which a Monarch' " by Divine right" had menaced an entire nation with ruin, and a great city of his empire with destruction by fire and sword. He knew that every Member of the Chamber had heard those words of violence with the same horror and indig-. nation. What fate, in fact, was reserved to unfortunate Poland! Her towns threatened with fire—her citizens struck with the 7cnout and sword—her children torn from the arms of their mothers, and transported to the ex tremity of the empire—her name erased from the map— her language proscribed—her temples overturned—the Poles no longer had either family, religion, country .. . . After blaming France, first for signing the treaty of 1815, and then for not insisting on its accomplishment, the orator stated that if she could not prevent the recurrence of those savage acts, she should at least protest highly of the horror they inspired her. He then contended that in virtue of those treaties Poland had been ensured an independent existence, to serve as a barrier for Western Europe against the barbarians of the East. The struggle, he maintained, was not between Russia and Poland—it was between two opposite principles, the right of the sword, on the one hand, and liberty, proclaimed by the French revolution, on the other. The Holy Alliance, he said, was biding its time, and never would form any sin cere union with the Constitutional States. Why trust in its promises since it had no confidence in those of its ad versaries. France had a remarkable instance of the want of sincerity of Kings of the old stock. Napoleon had mar ried a daughter of Imperial blood, and his father-in-law, when an opportunity offered, had abandoned him and helped' in overturning the throne of his own child. The intimacy between France and England was the closer, as it rested on the same interests. Lord Durham, he understood, had instructions to check the Czar in his career of depopula tion. He trusted France would join England in that praise worthy object, and concluded by saying that he would vote for the Address, if the Ministry acceded to those wishes, and restored to France the liberties conquered by the Re volution of July, which the crime of July had been made a pretext to curtail. M. Muret de Bord, as a Member of the majority of the Chamber, approved of the course followed by the Cabi net. He saw with pleasure that a miserable question of amour proprc would not engage in a deplorable collision two nations, whose sympathies and interests required their remaining ever at peace with one another. He then con tended that the restriction of the liberty of the Press, enacted during the last Session, had been attended with the most beneficial results, without impairing in the least that precious conquest of the Revolution. M. de Bord then read, amidst the noise of private conversations, a long series of observations against unlimited liberty of trade, the re duction of import duties on certain articles, the adoption of absurd theories, and wished the Government to be guided by time in the improvements which it would be necessary to introduce in the customs' legislation. He declared he had an entire confidence in the system of the Ministers. France, he said, had dramatic and brilliant pages enough 'to offer portraits for admiration ; her internal welfare ought to be at present the sole object of their solicitude. M. de Sade opposed the address. He blamed the burn ing of Mascara as a means of civilization and conciliation of the affections of the people of Algiers. He would not, however, qualify that act, until he received ex planations on the subject from the distinguished Chief who commanded the expedition, and who must have acted in consequence of instructions to that effect. He approved of the Government accepting with gratitude the me diation offered by England to settle a most absurd and un justifiable quarrel. France's honour could not suffer from such an acceptance—she had given too many, proofs of her power and courage to induce the supposition that fear was for any thing in that resolution. France and America had the same sympathies and interests. America was her na tural ally. That mediation he was glad to find from the President's Message would now prove useless, but it indi cated that the ties of friendship between the two first na tions in the world were drawing closer every day. The stupid national prejudices which had long divided France and England wdre fast disappearing, and, he was sorry to say, they were nearer expiring in the latter than in France. The lon enmity between both countries had been a permanent scandal and calamity for the world. M. de Sade then blamed the Ministers for putting into the King's mouth words of praise in favour of the restrictive laws of the liberty of individuals and of the Press, and contended that the boasted prosperity of France, the calmness and tranquillity it enjoyed, were not their doing, hut the work of France herself. M. Duvergier de Hausanne was supporting the Address when our Reporter left the House.—(Left speaking.) GREECE. (From the Journal des Debuts.) ATHENS.—Nov. 23.—The Government has just ad dressed to the conference of London and the three pro tecting Powers a memorial upon the state of our finances, in order to support the demand of the third instalment of the loan of sixty millions. I have procured this docu ment, which will doubtless also be published in the German journals, and I shalt oceordingly proceed to communicate . I to you the princiwa ,terns, adding such explanatory obser vaipns as, may be called 1... -I. ' The two first instalments oi " the loan, DRACHMS. 44,672,000-00 amounting to 40 millions offratiCs, or This sum is far from entering- entire int./ the coffers of the Greek Governme n t. N, r e must deduct therefrom the loss on the ne gotiafion of the loan, which was done at 9 per cent., with bank expenses, loss upon exchanges, &c., &c 4,07,761-60 Sums reserved for interest and for the sink ing fund, from the Ist of July, 1833, to the 31st of September, 1835 6,053,949-51 Payment to Turkey............ Paid to France and England, in reimburse ment of former advances made by them Paid to Mest-s. Eynard and Thiersch Total to be deducted from the two first instalments Leaving at the disposal of the Go vernment a balance of It is with this sum that the Government has had to Supply the deficit in the revenues, ordinary and extraordi nary, of the years 1833, 1834, 1835. There are two observations which I wish to make on this first document. One is, that the loss occasioned for ex penses of negotiation, &c., was stated to amount to the sum of 4,6o2,4l:drachms, in the account for the years 1833 and 1834, which was transmitted to the Conference at the com n:encement of this year (1835), and from which you may fi tn ,,,.seen extracts in the Augsburg Gazette. In the above statemc ct it amounts to 4,947,761-60. Now there is no thing w h a t e : , er to explain by what means these expenses could have bees: increased since that time, by the difference between the two it;n3s, 'amounting, as you will perceive, to the sum 0f45,000 drothrns. The second observation which I have to make is, that a sum of 1,200,000 drachms, to pro vide for the payment of the interest, and for the Sinking Fund for the current half-year, and which ought to be corn prised in the 6,053,949 drachms in the above account, has not yet been paid. • The memoir also contains the following general statement of the budget for 1836. 735,467-.72 162,038-.28 DRACHMS. The expenses, comprising a sum of 4,020,480 drachms for the interest and for the sinking fund of the third im:talment of 20 millions, are calculated at The net receipts it is calculated will amount to 11,312,445 Leaving a deficit for the year 1830 of 4,471,818 Such a result, if it could be looked upon as undoubted, would have nothing either very surpr.'sing or very'alarming for a country such as Greece. Unhappily, the Govern ment, in its memorial, has neglected to .. 4. ornish the most important document in its estimates for the y s 9ar 1836, and has not given any account, not even a summary' for 1835 however it is possible to supply in s o me degreo the void left by the silence of the Government. According to the account for 18:33 and 1834, which was transmitted to the Conference at the commencement of this year, the sums in hand disposable out of the two first instalments of the loan amounted on the 31st of Dec. 1834, to The total amount of recents for the year could not have been less than those presumed for 11,312,445 1836, viz It is know* that Bavaria has already advamed to meet the expenses of that year (183.5) a slim of 1,000,000 Total receipts for 1835 ............ 22,186,414 This amount is at the same time the minioum of the expenses. The treasury is absolutely empty ; and it is asserted very generally that a great deal yet remains to be paid. The year 1835 called for no expenses whatever that TrOY be set down as extraordinary. The amount for interest 'az;(l the Sinking Fund being only applied to the first two instaknents of the loan, require a sum of 1,346,000 drachms less than that carried in the budget for 1836, which is calculated on the supposition of the payment of the third instalment. Thus the excess of the expenses over the receipts, calculated at four and a half millions of drachms in the budget for 1836, ought to be valued at near eleven millions, if we take for basis the result of the year 1835, and even at more than twelve millions if the in terest of the whole sixty millions had to be paid. Or if the first evaluation be really the correct one, how were the extra six millions and a half for the year 1835 expended ? This question would not be so embarrassing, if the Go vernment had thought fit to communicate to the Confe rence of London the account for the year 1835 with the estimate for 1836. GERMAN AND BRUSSELS PAPERS, ‘ BULLEVN. PALACE DES NECESSIDADES, JA., N. 1, 1836.—Her Most l Faithful Majesty , and Her Im p erial ii,tajesty retain in good 5 left the Pa ace in health. At half-past 11, their Ma j estie. state, and proceeded to the Metropolitan church at Lisbon, where the ceremony of 'the marriage of Her Most Faithful Majesty, and of His Royal and_Serene_Higi.'nesi, Prince Ferdinand Atignstus Duke of Saxe Coburg .Gotha, was cer fornied; the Duke of Tereeira!being tlit pro. of His Ropl ,Highness. They returned to the palace atty 4 o'clock. I r i n oti2ately afterwards, Her' nest Faithful' Majesty re ceived the .1"..1. 1 plomatic body, and gave Beija-Mano, which ~ b. - Past over at naasa . i , five. At six o'clock - t ,;leir Royal Highnesses the Infante Donna Isabella Maria, and .thP Infante Donna Anna de Je sus Maria, visited their Maj'esi.'es.- BRUSSELS, JAN. 10.,-tcht: Minister of. Finance lately a nnounced that he intended ~e lower the import duties on some articles of French prod t fee The Union gives the following particulars . which may' b`•e considered as ;,official. The reduction of duties will li.` l first on silks and brandies, and here the measure is emtirely to our own in terest, for it is notorious that these two ..?rticles are at pre sent brougl:t into Belgium almost exclusively by contra band... A eonziderable diminution of the duties will there fore cause them i. 9 be inspected in a legal manner', And will much increase the ainount o f dut be y received. will also much diminished, which The duties On wines in France. It is also intended , will give great satisfact ioi2 greater part of the differential 20th August, 182 S, as we hear, to suppress the or iniported into France, duties or prohibitions of the as9cTee of ustifled by the failure on various articles of French orio.i .- ' 3 2 a measure of reprisal.which was hart.. 41 3' . .1 of the negotiations at that time op,.n.ed between the two • countries, and the abolition of which 1 5 called for by the actual state of our political and contineL`tal relations with France. This measure, -besides, has .liad but little effect on our manufactures, which had to ms lintain a far more formidable competition with Great Britrain and Ger many ; besides, the French productions bad but . to make use of the Prussian territory, and of English ships, to come without impediment into Belgium, and to defeat the mea sures adopted against them; The wind, which is again in the East, has caused an accumulation of ice before the city of Antwerp, which seems likely again to interrupt-the n-Avigation. The Leedwig Edward sailed to-day from Antwerp for Smyrna and Constantinople, with a very valuable cargo of Belgian productions. Two other vessels are in lading for the Levant and Constantinople. BELGIAN FUNDS—BRUSSELS, Jan. 9. Actual Debt, 23 per Cent , 101 Rothschild's Loan Five per Cent Loan of City, 1/331, Four per Cent. ... . , ....... Cen t Society of Commerce . Four and a Hai .. per l3:y4 Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent —Brussels Papers, Jan.lll. The Imperial Russian Consulate at .11:.kinbutzh has pub lished the following notice : . " The Imperial Russian Gove rnment has reasons t 0 believe that some individuals, in defiance of the existing laws, conti nue to practice the slave trade, and intend to employ the Rai sian flag for that purpose, hoping that they shall thereby se cure their infamous traffic against the pursuits of those Powers which have agreed together on the reciprocal right of search ing ships, and detaining them when band to be engaged in that trade. "The Russian Consul-Gencral in..bamburgh has, thvre fore, orders to signify to the owners and captains of ships, that no person has a right to use 'the Russian mercantile flag who has not obtained. express permission from the Imperia l Government that such permission is to be proved by a legal patent, and that it is not given except on certain conditions fixed by the laws ; lastly; that every violation of these laws, that every illegal use of the Rnssian flag, shall be considered as a fraud, and he who is gnilty of it shall bear the penalty of his unlawful conduct; that especially a slave ship, sailing un der Russian colours, that may be detained by any cruiser, can in no case appeal to this flag in order to claim the protection of the Imperial Government, and thereby to escape his just and well-merited punishment. "VON BACHERACHT, " Imperial Russian Consul General. " Hamburgh, Dee. 24, 1835 (January 5, HAMBURG BORSEN HA LLE, JAN; 8. GRAIN. 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